Quote Originally Posted by Hatstand View Post
Bane, miasma, and Shadowflare were maintainence buttons in the same way that tank defensive cooldowns are maintainence buttons. Or SMN DoTs. Or any of a dozen hit-on-cooldown (in most cases) damage abilities on dps classes were. The fact of the matter is that they made dealing damage on SCH more engaging than a 1 button spam. It wasn’t perfect, and I would have liked to have seen improvements, but these aren’t improvements.
Let me put it this way. The existence of Bane, Miasma, Shadowflare today would preclude the existence of anything better than that in the future.